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Canada are very private with releasing bmds I have found it very difficult to find info online

The 1921 census is online but then doesn't seem complete because lots of searches come up with zero results

I can not find a Murial Agnes Smeaton born to Charles William George Smeaton & Lilian Elizabeth Pierpoint 31/8/1898.

I found a Lucy born 31 August 1898 to Charles William George Smeeton & Lilian Elizabeth Pierpoint

I have been looking for Lilian Elizabeth Smeeton on the 1939 Register,the only likely one is a Lilian E Wood 7/6/1874 with a Charles W Wood born 13/2/1914 could he be related to her sister's husband John Wood born abt 1876

1911 Lilian Elizabeth Smeeton with her children were visiting her sister Edith Annie Wood, who lived at 1 Cutlers Terrace, Balls Pond Road Islington


Did Lilian change her name to Wood?

I think they reg some of the children in one name and then altered them
Murial is Lucy I think

Amy was reg as Amy and baptised as Annie

Lilian died as Smeeton in1942. Edmonton reg district

Possibly her in 1938

View London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
Name: Lilian Smeeton
Year: 1938
County or Borough: Hackney
Ward or Division/Constituency: Hackney
Street address: 51 Farleigh Road

Mistranscribed


Naylor (Tuffill) Household (6 People)
32 Newlyn Road , Tottenham M.B., Middlesex, England
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FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB OCCUPATION
Lilian E Sneeton 24 Aug 1874 Pension GA widow !!!!
Charlotte M Naylor (Tuffill) 06 Apr 1912 Army Equitment Machinist
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Its Smeeton on the actual page

If Charles was in the Irish Guards, perhaps he was abroad with the Army on census dates.

I don't see Lilian and Amy/Annie in 1901, either with or without Charles.
Nor Muriel/Lucy.

You said Charles had a second marriage, Ellen. Who was the second wife?

Hmmm -

so Charles was in the Irish Guards in 1900 ? He must have been one of the first -

The Irish Guards Regiment was formed by Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria in 1900 to commemorate the contribution of the Irish soldiers during the Second Boer War. The Regiment was then stationed on ceremonial duties until the outbreak of the First World War.
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/units/171/irish-guards/


So in 1901 he should have been somewhere in the UK, even if not actually with Lilian.

Thank you for the 1939 Register, I looked under similar names but got nothing

I am in touch with Ann in Canada whose grandmother was May Victoria Smeeton married to Thomas Vasey Trindale d/o Charles & Lilian.


Ann told me that Charles remarried & had a son (she is trying to find to who) they both died in a car going over an embankment whilst they were on their way to a Symphony Concert, this is all I know to this date

Just received some further info Charles William George Smeeton with his new wife & son move to the US; They died on their way to San Francisco in winter to a Symphony Concert their car went over an embankment

Any idea of a year of death

Sorry to say I have no idea

Ancestry isn't finding anything I,m afraid